In the absence of the European Union's approval and it can be put into operation, driving trucks in a squad or platooning is almost a reality. Heavy vehicles will circulate on Spanish and European roads in groups of two or three vehicles. This type of driving has been approved by all truck manufacturers, tests have been carried out both in a closed circuit and on real roads.
Platoon driving is designed so that the vehicle that leads the peloton is driven manually with a driver with permanent attention, as usual, and followed by one or two vehicles with automatic or semi-automatic driving.
This new type of driving heavy transport vehicles still has many legal complications that It has to be solved so that it can finally be real. However, some of the studies carried out in this regard have set a date for its start.
The automation of this system is included in a scale of levels from 0 to 5 in which at the moment only level 2 is reached real.
In 2016 real routes were carried out between Munich and Stockholm with different truck companies such as MAN, Sacania, Volvo, Iveco, Daimler Chrysler and DAF among some of them. This program, which has not yet finished, has a plan for gradually introducing the system until 2025, which is intended to reach level 4.
So that, for example, in Spain this system can be carried out of driving in a group of trucks, it would first be necessary to take into account issues such as:
